Microsoft BASIC
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Mircosoft BASIC was a BASIC interpreter (and dialect).
Interpreters for CP/M operating systems are also called MBASIC. The compiler was named BASCOM.
- List of OEM versions
- Applesoft BASIC
- 1977: Commodore BASIC
- 1980: Tandy Color Computer Extended BASIC
- 1982 Dragon Extended Basic
MBASIC
BASIC Interpreter
Versions
- Microsoft BASIC-80 Interpreter
- Rev. 4.51
- Rev. 5.0
- Sep 1980: 5.2
- 1981: 5.21
- 1982: 5.22
- 1983: 5.26
- 5.28
- Microsoft BASIC-86 Interpreter
- 5.21
- 5.22
- Microsoft BASIC for Apple Macintosh
- 1984: 1.0
- Nov 1984: 2.0
- 2.1
- Sep 1986: 3.0
BASCOM
This BASIC compiler was developed in 1981 for CP/M. IBM shipped a OEM version for the IBM PC. Similar to CBASIC a BASIC runtime system (BRUN or BASRUN) was required to execute the compiled programs.
Versions
- Microsoft Business BASIC Compiler for MS-DOS
- 1983, 1984 (BASCOMB)
Publications
- Kenneth B. Knecht: Microsoft BASIC - Dilithium Press 1982, ISBN 0-88056-056-8
- Walter A. Ettlin; Gregory Solberg: The MBASIC Handbook - Osborne/McGraw Hill 1983, ISBN 0-88134-102-9
- Ettlin; Solberg: Microsoft BASIC Handbook - McGraw-Hill 1984, ISBN 0-07-881102-3
- Lesser: Using the Microsoft Superscript Business Basic Compiler on the IBM Superscript PC - McGraw-Hill 1986, ISBN 0-07-037299-3